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Topic: 'Lost' season 5 returns Jan. 21 (Read 21592 times)

You know what's really sad though, is that I got used to watching three or four episodes a night and then coming home the next day and watching a couple more. By the time I finished the third disk, the next two would be in my mailbox from Netflix, so I never had to go very long.

I can now confirm what I first teased earlier this week: Team Darlton has sealed a deal with ABC to bring us an extra hour of Lost this season.

But there's a twist.

Lost isn't the only ABC hit experiencing an unexpected growth spurt. Sources confirm to me exclusively that Grey's Anatomy will also expand its season by an hour — and it has Lost to thank!

Allow me to explain. With a 14th hour of Lost now a done deal, the show's finale will swell to three hours. But, in what can only be described as an unorthodox scheduling move, the first hour of that finale will air on May 15, and then we have to wait two weeks — until May 29 — to get the last two hours! That's right, no Lost on May 22.

Why?

Apparently, Darlton convinced ABC that the final two hours had to air together. And with the finales of Grey's and Ugly Betty already slated for May 22 at 8 and 9 pm respectively, ABC really had no other choice than to sked Lost's two-hour exit for May 29. That, in turn, created a hole on May 22 at 10 pm — hence the net's decision to tack an extra hour onto the Grey's finale.

"We are very excited and grateful to [ABC president] Steve McPherson for working out the scheduling difficulties to allow us to make the second part of our finale two hours," says exec producer Carlton Cuse. "Damon and I were working on the script and we just couldn't get it all done in one hour without shortchanging the story. Now the finale will have all the sweep and emotional completeness we wanted it to have — along with, of course, answering who's in the coffin."

Still confused about how the new schedule will look? Let me break it down for you.

May 158 pm: Ugly Betty9 pm: Grey's Anatomy10 pm: Lost (part 1 finale)

May 228 pm: Ugly Betty finale9-11 pm: Two-hour Grey's Anatomy finale

May 298 pm: Lost encore (part 1 finale)9-11 pm: Two-hour Lost finale

All told, a pretty fraktacular turn of events. That is, unless you have a stake in the success of Swingtown. The controversial CBS drama was scheduled to debut on May 29 at 10 pm against little or no competition. Now it's up against the most anticipated 60 minutes of television all year.

It leaves me wanting more!! OMG I can't stand it!! lol They have to go back just have to go back!! that has to be what next season is about .. how they get back what happened to the peeps left behind, is Jin alive, ....I've been reading spoilers and there really are some good theories out there... but I won't go there, lol

Lost Cue our favorite creepy whooshing sound, because ABC has confirmed the premiere date for the fifth season of Lost, and it's Jan. 21.

Yep, that's a Wednesday, and it's where Lost — which last season aired Thursdays at 10 pm/ET, following Grey's Anatomy — will stay.

More specifically, Lost's regular time slot will be Wednesdays at 9 pm, though the new cycle will kick off with a three-hour event — a clip show followed by the first two episodes.

Last season, Lost saw its best-laid plans to air all of its episodes uninterrupted, à la 24, waylaid by the WGA strike. At this time, sources are unable to confirm if the 17-episode Season 5 will in fact pull off the straight-through feat.

The extended trailer from Lost's forthcoming fifth season is upon us — and those crafty folks over at ABC have created yet another mystery to add to the laundry list by flashing a subliminal message twice (at the 1:34 and 2:25 mark) within the video set to The Fray's new video for "You Found Me."

The split second image flashed is a logo for Ajira Airways which consists of a roaring tiger atop a flaming sun (and as with Oceanic, a teaser site has been created).

The trailer consists of footage for last season as well as a few select snippets from the upcoming Season 5 including Sawyer and Juliet holding hands and Desmond and Penny in bed.